Forum rules

* This free forum is ONLY open for private, personal ads, not for businesses/property agents.* Do not bump or duplicate your posts. * Ads will expire after 30 days.* PIN YOUR POST to the top of these classifieds and link it from this box, for a donation: Contact Lamma-Gung.

So many Lammaites have been selling & buying stuff and finding & letting flats via these free classifieds over the years, it would be nice to make them community-supported.

This forum are totally advertising-free and I'd prefer to keep it this way. I've been paying all the running costs myself, mainly the yearly webhosting of HK$1,440, but also various other smaller expenses. This forum is the most labour-intensive and by far the most troublesome part of this entire website (spam attacks, registrations, hosting problems, backups, maintenance, etc.), but it generates absolutely no revenue for me.

We'll have to find a much cheaper flat very soon, another major rent increase coming up, any leads most appreciated! So I can't really continue to pay all these forum costs out of my own pocket. The shrinking amount of advertising revenue from the (barely) self-supporting Lamma-zine can't subsidise this forum forever.

The yearly webhosting bill is due end of this month. Could we raise this small amount of $1,440 via donations from people who have sold things and found tenants via this forum, or from the many Lammaites who found a bargain here or just think that these all-free classifieds are a useful community service and should survive a while longer?

If you don't donate, nobody else will either. It's simplistic to think that somebody else will donate, but it doesn't work that way. Donations are extremely rare and precious; there have only been a tiny few this entire year so far.

All donations will be used only for the webhosting bill. If more is raised (pretty unlikely!), it'll be used for other occasional, upcoming forum support bills.

Please click on Support Lamma.com.hk! in the upper right side on the home page of this site, or send me a Private Message, or email info@Lamma.com.hk, or simply transfer to HSBC 499-064061-001 (anonymously, if you prefer).

Thank you very much in advance for your support to keep this forum & these free classifieds running!

Many thanks to these wonderful individuals who have helped to maintain this forum and keep it all free for all Lammaites, buy & sell, rent & let, plus Lammaites' own little business ventures, like teaching or providing welcome local products and services.

Like now, regular companies and businesses, especially local property agents and off-island businesses, are NOT welcome to advertise here for free and will be removed immediately. But they're all welcome to advertise on the home page and pay our very modest fees.

Any more wonderful people who would like to support these classifieds? Only 3 people so far on all of Lamma amongst the many, many people who have used these classifieds successfully over the last almost 11 years? PM me for details or simply transfer, please.

I've sent you a Private Message.
Has anybody else encountered this or any another problem while donating?

Many many thanks to the very few people who've donated so far. It's very much appreciated. Donations are still most welcome, as the webhosting bill is now overdue by 12 days...

We've also got a major move to a less expensive but very remote Lamma location coming up in the next few weeks. We have to leave the Yung Shue Wan area after almost 12 years, it's become unaffordable for us...

Just sent you a PM but it is stuck in the outbox.Can you read it from my outbox?It is the only message left. I deleted all other messages from inbox, sentbox outbox and savebox.

Thanks.

All is fine with your Private Messages. I received it. All successfully sent out Private Message will always remain in the Outbox till the recipient has opened them. Then they move automatically to the Sentbox. This tells you if the recipient has read your PM or not yet.

You might have noticed that this website and forum has been down all morning today, Aug 22. After my own investigations and several emails to Customer Support of the webhosting co., it turned out that they had suspended the entire Lamma.com.hk domain, without letting me know when and why! After at first not admitting to suspending the account, I finally got their reply with an ultimatum:

"Dear Customer:

Your [Lamma.com.hk domain webhosting] account was suspended as your account was sending out a large amount of Spam. I will be restoring services to this account, however I will need you to agree change all the passwords to any email accounts you may have. This needs to be done as soon as possible. If the passwords to the email accounts are not changed, the account will be suspended again.

We will require you to change all passwords. If all passwords are not changed, the account will be suspended. Additionally, you may want to scan all the computers associated to email accounts as if you did not send out spam emails, it is quite possible one of your computers may be compromised."

There went another 2/3 of a day of my life getting this non-commercial, ad-free forum running again, wading through site admin menus and security settings....

The above does NOT affect your forum usernames, passwords or Private Messages in any way, please proceed as before, no need to change the passwords of forum users... till another spambot might get this forum suspended again...

If the site was compromised, they should tell you. You're paying the bastards.

Maybe appeal to any forum members who have a connection to a local hosting company if they can do a deal, where at least you can have a relationship with them and phone them and yell at them if necessary.

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